Definition of civil

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Civil (a.) Performing the duties of a citizen; obedient to government; -- said of an individual.

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Actor :: Actor (n.) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
Comity :: Comity (n.) Mildness and suavity of manners; courtesy between equals; friendly civility; as, comity of manners; the comity of States..
Courtesy :: Courtesy (v. t.) To treat with civility.
Court-baron :: Court-baron (n.) An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse..
Incivility :: Incivility (n.) Any act of rudeness or ill breeding.
Gentry :: Gentry (a.) Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
Choctaws :: Choctaws (n. pl.) A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian), in early times noted for their pursuit of agriculture, and for living at peace with the white settlers. They are now one of the civilized tribes of the Indian Territory..
Uncivility :: Uncivility (n.) Incivility.
Erastian :: Erastian (n.) One of the followers of Thomas Erastus, a German physician and theologian of the 16th century. He held that the punishment of all offenses should be referred to the civil power, and that holy communion was open to all. In the present day, an Erastian is one who would see the church placed entirely under the control of the State..
Blunt :: Blunt (a.) Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
Mannerliness :: Mannerliness (n.) The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance.
Magistrate :: Magistrate (n.) A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it..
Civilist :: Civilist (n.) A civilian.
Barbarity :: Barbarity (n.) The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization.
Enfranchise :: Enfranchise (v. t.) To endow with a franchise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman.
Goody :: Goody (n.) Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport.
Full-bottomed :: Full-bottomed (a.) Full and large at the bottom, as wigs worn by certain civil officers in Great Britain..
Decivilize :: Decivilize (v. t.) To reduce from civilization to a savage state.
Dead :: Dead (a.) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead..
Visit :: Visit (v. t.) The act of visiting, or going to see a person or thing; a brief stay of business, friendship, ceremony, curiosity, or the like, usually longer than a call; as, a visit of civility or respect; a visit to Saratoga; the visit of a physician..
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